Fishin’ Tradition

My Pops joined my brother an I for an afternoon of fishing today.  We try to squeeze in some type of fishing every year on Father’s Day.  Last year, we went offshore and caught tuna.  This year – we decided to stay in about a foot of water and chase drum on the flats.  The first stop had a nice slough running down the side of the flat, and the ole man hooks a really nice flounder on his first cast.  We venture on over to another flat and started sight casting to them.  The water was crystal clear!  What a great afternoon with our Pops.

Full moon (2 day report)

I’m searching for excuses as to why the fishing was so slow today…… I am going to go ahead and blame it on the full moon.  I had an awesome group of 5 with me this morning.  I headed to a spot that I really wanted to fish – but I had never gotten my boat in there.  I slowly putted into this shallow flat – that just kept getting shallower.  It wasn’t long before I was in the water pulling the boat off the sand.   It was a rough start.  We ended up catching 1 in there.  The weather was turning, and the radar looked like some of my 6 month olds artwork.  I through out the idea of going to get some breakfast and let it pass.

We headed to TLs together and sat down and stuffed our faces.   We kept waiting for the rain to pass – but it never really did.  It just hung around for a while.  We decided lets just go fishing.

Once we got back out there the weather finally started to clear.  It was still some very tough fishing with only throwback trout and flounder to show.   We grinded hard and bounced around but never really found a good bite.   I very enjoyable morning, and some fish in the box would have just been a cherry on top.  Thanks alot guys – hope to see you next year!

Yesterday I had a split boat trip with Bryan Dehart.  We caught flounder and drum. We found an awesome bite right at the tail end of the trip.

Tim & Company

Back at it again this morning with Tim and company.   We stayed out of the rain most of the day, but we did get sprinkled on there for a minute.  Fished for puppy drum first thing, and caught one about 17″ first.  I haven’t seen one that size in a while. They have either been slot size or 12″.  Anyways, we hung around and pulled one more keeper drum out of there.  Headed to another spot and picked up a keeper flounder.  Bounced around a bit with no bites, and finally Tim puts a nice fat drum in the box.   Thanks for joining me – you guys are great.

That’s why they call it “fishing”

Marc and I had a 2 boat trip this morning.  We had a group of 6 who decided to split up 3 and 3.  We had some tough fishing!  I get really bummed out when someone gets referred to me and the fishing is slow.  When the line “that’s why they call it fishing” comes out, its makes my stomach turn!  We started out the morning with a puppy drum after about 20 mins of fishing.  Decent start…. We stayed in the same area for a while and never found another bite.

I made a move to a popular spot that didn’t have any boats in it, I was hopeful.  We fished it hard and pulled off 1 puppy drum right at the boat.  After that things went pretty quite for a couple hours.  We popped a small trout somewhere in there.

The wind started to crank up around mid day – and made some spots unfishable.  We tucked away behind some points and managed a small keeper flounder.  These guys fished hard – and were great company. I wish we could have had a better bite today.  Thanks for joining me guys!